Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week prior, a subcommittee of the Finance Committee had held sugar hearings to which flocked white men and brown men, businessmen and lawyermen, bearing bulging brief cases and in anything but a sweet humor. William Marion Jardine, Coolidge Secretary of Agriculture, now a lobbyist for the U. S. Beet Sugar Association, opened the argument: "The trouble about Sugar is there is too damned much of it being produced. . . . Give us a duty that will bring six-cent sugar . . . and we'll show you how to produce more sugar...
...theatrical personality is thrust on him by the imaginative girls he meets at Bradley Beach. Best shot: Mulhall showing he is an actor by reciting "The Shooting of Dan McGrew." The Wheel of Life (Paramount). To appear in this film Richard Dix, usually properly shaved, grew one of those brief mustaches which indicate to the cinema public that its wearer is a British officer. While he is buying her something to eat in the delicatessen next door, a veiled young woman in evening dress runs away from his apartment. Her action suggests ingratitude, for a few moments before...
Disarmament was the Dawes thesis. He wasted little time in coming to the point. After brief reference to the U. S. naval building program of $1,170,800.000 and mention of the Reparations Commission of 1924, he said...
...Floyd Dell had a brief period of significance. . . . At no time was [he] a real revolutionist. . . . He was a Greenwich Village playboy...
...Italian State bonds. In the Hall of Congregations, standing beneath an exquisite ivory crucifix, Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, hands folded, waited to receive money and bonds and exchange formally with Signer Mussolini the State-&-Church reconciliation treaty signed by them both last February (TIME, Feb. 18). After a brief, courteous exchange of duplicate texts of the treaty, last of diplomatic formalities, the Papal State, recognized by Italy, became an independent state, like Liechtenstein and Monaco...